By Amy Woods
According to the National Retail Federation, the average family spent nearly $800 last year to prepare one child for school — an amount that is the highest in the history of the survey.
Back to School PBC is an annual event that helps pr
By Christine Davis and Amy Woods
The fundraisers at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation have more big reasons to smile. A recent pair of $1 million donations to the Keeping the Promise campaign came from Jonathan and Laura Beinner and Ken an
Xan Rammacher’s Community Cat Medical Fund in its first year provided funding for medical treatment of more than 60 sick or injured felines roaming Palm Beach County. Photo provided
By Arden Moore
In the dedicated world of helping community cats in P
Lawn games and inflatable sprinklers were all part of the holiday weekend fun at the Lantana Library, currently housed at the town’s recreation center. Alaric Wang, 5, of Lantana, plays a fishing game and Milly Marzipan, children’s musician, performs
Kozak’s interpretation of the First Station of the Cross: Jesus is Condemned to Death. The oak carving shows soldiers leading away Jesus after he was condemned by Pontius Pilate, who in the background is ’washing his hands’ of the death. Photos provi
By Janis Fontaine
Temple Beth El of Boca Raton continues to grow and planned to welcome Rabbi Elana Rabishaw as its fourth full-time rabbi on July 1. She will join the clergy team that includes Rabbis Dan Levin, Jessica Spitalnic Mates and Greg Wei
By Larry Barszewski
Drivers traveling State Road A1A near the Boynton Inlet can expect traffic delays over the next two weeks because of a bridge repair project that starts Monday, June 20.
Officials are recommending motorists find an alternate route
Water samples taken between May 14 and 18 show those from (l-r) a Delray Beach home on Delray Lakes Drive, a Delray Beach condo on Dotterel Road, a Boca Raton home on Southwest Fifth Street, and two samples from a Delray Beach home on Sandoway Lane t
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By Joel Engelhardt and Mary Hladky
Florida condominiums will be required to retain reserves to pay for structural defects under a bill passed May 24 during t
Joshua Smith trapped this 6-foot-long iguana west of Lake Worth Beach. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Joe Capozzi
Air rifle in hand, the hunter spotted his target on a tree branch over the shoreline some 30 yards south of the Briny Breezes marina.
Welcome to hurricane season.
If you’re new to the area you may have recently encountered your first flooded roadways, rising groundwater and canceled windstorm insurance.
Add to that mix La Niña holding in the Pacific, a slowed Gulf Stream, a warmer
Joanne Ryan stands on the fresh tracks of a loggerhead in Highland Beach. Ryan manages the collecting of sea turtle nesting data and is an avid photographer. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jan Engoren
Even before sipping her first predawn coffee eac
This month’s Coastal Star mailbag included one letter with a photo and a question for readers: Do you know these flashy dressers?
Coastal Star reader Mary Wollney of Lantana sent in this photograph, which she took sometime between 2008 and 2011, of th
What is wrong with the Delray Beach commissioners? They have as a whole completely ruined the award-winning small town of Delray Beach. It has been ruined and they are all to blame.
With their approved overdevelopment, the city has, in a mere coupl
Honoring the fallen
Memorial Day, once known as Decoration Day, began after the Civil War to remember the fallen of that conflagration. It now honors all who have died in military service to the country. More than 100 people gathered at the Delray Be
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By Charles Elmore
Days before the June 1 start to hurricane season, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed what he called the “most significant reforms to Florida’s homeowners insurance m
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach commissioners have not settled on a plan yet for how best to use the Cornell Museum of Art at Old School Square during the fast-approaching summer season.
Following a May 17 commission workshop on the subject, City Manager T
Emma Imperatore and Valentina Autiero show the Gulf Stream Town Commission possible new locations for duck crossing signs. BELOW RIGHT: Prototype they drew two years ago. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Thanks to the determin
By Mary Hladky
After years of steady growth, the taxable values of Palm Beach County properties have surged in a reflection of the white-hot real estate market and a spike in new construction.
All southeast county municipalities saw impressive gains,
A FedEx driver leaves his truck along East Palmetto Park Road in Boca Raton as he delivers a package to a business. The city plans to redesign the road from Federal Highway to Fifth Avenue for better function. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Hla
